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The solid economic growth of the past few years hasn’t translated for professionals looking for white-collar jobs. A hiring boom in 2021 turned into...
The current state of the market for renters is akin to being in the eye of a multi-year hurricane. Rents surged in 2021 and 2022, driving a wave of...
Homebuilders were one of the big surprise winners in the US economy last year as record-low inventory of existing houses for sale and gently rising...
The timing and pace of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts will consume economists and market commentators for months to come. But an emerging story in...
News that the National Association of Realtors agreed to settle litigation over commission rules for real estate agents has fueled intense discussion...
The pandemic years transformed wealth in the US, sowing the seeds of a new form of inequality. The divide is clear when describing the state of...
If you need to sell your home in the next few months, I’d get on with it. As we enter the spring selling season, it’s becoming increasingly clear...
Stocks and bonds rallied at the end of last year on the hope of a seemingly improbable combination of dynamics playing out to support financial assets...
Economic growth in the US is off to a better start than expected this year, thanks largely to a long-awaited pickup in consumers buying “stuff”...
Cities such as Boise, Austin and Phoenix defined the pandemic housing boom. Now, as falling mortgage rates raise the prospect of 2024 being a strong...
Corporate America has greeted 2024 with a run of job-cut announcements. The reductions, though modest, seem puzzling at a time when the stock market...
I wrote last week about how interest rate cuts in 2024 should boost cyclical areas of the economy that were already set to rebound, lifting economic...
The key economic question for 2024 is how to think about the interest rate cuts we’re likely to get from the Federal Reserve. Are they good news for...
Stronger signaling from the Federal Reserve that interest rate cuts are on the menu in 2024 understandably sent both stocks and bonds soaring on...
Homebuyers have suffered some severe whiplash in recent months. After all, when mortgage rates hit 8% in late October, it was reasonable to think the...
The unhappiness of American consumers despite rapid job and economic growth in the past few years is a hotly debated topic. Is it inflation? High...
Now that there’s a growing consensus that the Federal Reserve is done raising interest rates — a shift I predicted last month — it’s time to...
It’s easy to look at the rise in the unemployment rate over the past six months and attribute it to a growing labor force, as Goldman Sachs Group...
The inflation scare is barely behind us, and it is already time for the Federal Reserve to focus on recession risks. The recent trajectory of job...
One consistent overhang in an otherwise pretty good year for the US economy has been tightening credit standards at banks. Lower loan growth has meant...
The big migration story of the pandemic was the emptying out of major US cities. As more employees return partly or fully to their offices, people...
For the first time since the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, every part of the housing market is now poised to worsen. The resale...
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